WOODWARD, Joseph Addison, (son of William Woodward),
a Representative from South Carolina;
born in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S.C., on April 11, 1806;
received an academic training and was graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar and practiced;
member of the State house of representatives, 1834-1835, 1840-1841;
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1853);
declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress;
moved to Alabama and resumed the practice of his profession;
died in Talladega, Talladega County, Ala., on August 3, 1885;
interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.